went home for lunch and this lil gent cuddled with me the whole while, as his sisters were snoozing in the other room
An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.
#its crazy to me that 8000 years ago people shaped like that mustve existed for them to make statues shaped like that #like bodies similar to mine have always existed #crazy tags via @jellabean22
Yes! People act like fatness is an invention of the 20th century and “our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have been obese!” Bullshit. Fat people have always existed, and our ancestors thought they were beautiful! <333
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
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buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
[ID: tweet from Linn LeBlanc reads: Where were you 49 years [ago] today when @/TheRealBuzz and Neil Armstrong made those historic first steps onto the Moon. Attached is a color photo of an astronaut on the moon. Buzz Aldrin quote tweets it and replies: I was on the Moon! #Apollo11 /]
Solidarity Summer is well and truly ramping up. AS IT FUCKING SHOULD.
And another one! 📢
Barnes and Noble booksellers are working on forming a union as well!
Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP.
hope more people start forming unions. a high tide raises all ships.
I'd like to see adjunct professors get fair wages--universities can take it from the literal MILLIONS they waste on coaches (look it up), or force some of tenured bloats to get off their asses. at any rate, it'd given them a better way to bargain.
I also wish dentists could get together and get insurance providers to have them included in health plans along with the rest of the damn body. if you have medical insurance, you don't need separate vision or audiological or foot or skin insurance--it's medical.
I wish there were unions for fast food workers, for grocers, for just about any shopping industry--because they should be paid fair wages, shouldn't be cut off from hours just below 40-hours per week to get fucked out of insurance, and should be able to take time off when they're sick so they don't get everyone else sick, too. or hell, just to take time off. to have a life and go out and enjoy things.
and agricultural workers. they handle our food, they do some of the toughest work in the shittiest conditions. it's not as if the companies paying them don't have fucking enough--they're already gouging us on the other end, so pay your fucking workers a living wage.
Link gardening in his new house b/c of course one of the first rooms he got was a garden XD
Played around with a BotW/TotK kinda-ish coloring, it was fun!
staff choosing to copy twitter now is certainly.......a choice
every single bumper sticker hits like a fucking train
i WILL continue to post my own tiktoks because i am very funny
easily the best comment this tiktok received.
I’m taking pottery lessons right now… and my teacher said “the kiln gods are being kind to me right now.” And that made me stop and think. Is there a god of pottery? I tried to look it up but it’s hazy.
In Ancient Greece, Athena was apparently the goddess of crafts, which is a bit vague. Hephaestus was the god of sculpting, but that’s not right either.
In Ancient Egypt, I found Khnum who made the other gods and humankind on his potter’s wheel.
I found two gods of pottery in Southeast Asian cultures, Lianaotabi and Panthoibi.
But I wasn’t able to find anyone else. Pottery being such an important part of daily life all around the world, it seems like there would be more. Does anyone know of any other gods of pottery?
kiln gods are also A Thing!
they're little sculptural critters that potters make and leave on or around their kiln for good luck. a lot of them have to do with fire or are holding pottery (Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle is one I've seen multiple times) but a kiln god can be anything
I share a kiln so I don't want to take up space on or near the kiln, so I just put a kiln god through with every batch of pottery
here's a selection of mine (all holding pottery)
the head of the ceramics dept learned his wood fire techniques in Japan, including a Shinto take on the kiln gods.
wadding is a material glaze doesn't stick too, and it's used to prop up pieces in a wood fire kiln because otherwise the wood ash would weld them to the shelves.
everyone has to make a little wood fire idol out of wadding and place them on top of the kiln
and unlike a gas or electric kiln that can be programmed and then left alone aside from a few checks, a wood fire kiln needs to be babysat for the full 2-3 day fire (for our size kiln anyway).
cool thing is there's an external pit where we burn thin pieces of wood to get a good ash layer on the pieces, and you can cook in said pit while you're watching. but our prof required us to throw a little bit of whatever we cooked into the main fire as ordering
he also opened the firing by sharing some sake with the kiln before lighting it
we have so little control
the kiln can finish our work
and make them functional
or it can destroy it all
so we make offerings
and protectors
and pray
- Clay Pigeon
The Animation Guild Announces Unionization Efforts At Warner Bros. And Cartoon Network
"Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network production workers are attempting to unionize with The Animation Guild (TAG).
A petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board today requesting a union election. The petition includes 66 staffers at Warner Bros. Animation and 22 at Cartoon Network, including roles like production manager, digital production assistant, IT technician, production coordinator, production assistant, design production coordinator, assistant production manager and senior assistant production manager.
They are involved in such Warner Bros. projects as Batman: The Caped Crusader, Harley Quinn and Teen Titans Go! and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, We Baby Bears and Craig of the Creek.
The workers also requested voluntary recognition from management at the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries.
A tweet was issued confirming the move, which was officially announced earlier on a joint Zoom call.
“Although many might not think it, production is a specialized skill; we might not be artists or writers, but what we bring to the table goes beyond traditional creativity and gets content on the air,” Warner Bros. Animation production manager Hannah Ferenc said in a statement about the organization effort. “Having lived through the existing state of the animation industry for the past seven years, I want to make sure that not only our current workers, but all those who choose to join us in the future, can feel secure in following their passion by earning livable wages and being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
The Animation Guild has already established bargaining units on shows like Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! It also is active at studios like Titmouse New York and L.A. and ShadowMachine. Establishment at Walt Disney Animation Studios is currently in progress."
no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can
maybe reblog this or something so they can see and its an actual good sample of general opinion?
because i hate it. too much going on. not good for desktop users, and i cant fucking see my dash. i also saw another post that says that this is literally just like Instagram and all other social media sites so if they are trying to be unique then it isn't working.
i at least want a way to go back to regular tumblr.
what the FUCK is this
Since WHEN have we asked for tumblr to use Twitter's layout. What the hell. I hate this. why.
@staff No.
In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”
If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.
This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:
If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!
